0.5.8-Alpha

Major Updates

• added support for animated GIF outputs, from eg AnimateDiff or ComfyVideoHelperSuite nodes. Swarm now recognizes and handles these properly throughout, including the grid generator and everything.
  • Video files (mp4/webm) are now partially supported as well.
• Added Docker support, see readme for info
• Added a bulk pickle-to-safetensors conversion utility, see here for detail
• added support for remote Swarm backends having their own model lists recognized by the local Swarm instance, including automatically filtering requests to the correct backend that has the desired models, and support for model/lora/embedding/controlnet all being recognized
• you can now drag an image into the image area and it will be loaded in and metadata scanned - this includes images created by swarm, or even images created by other tools (eg auto webui or fooocus)
• ComfyUI Workflow Editor tab can now use multiple backends simultaneously! At the top left under MultiGPU selector choose All, then create a workflow where the output nodes (PreviewImage/SaveImage) have different colors (use 1 unique color per backend). Each output's sub-graph will be split to a different comfy backend - see video here #11 (comment)
• added wildcards system - for details see #11 (comment)

Minor Updates

• when using a custom Comfy workflow in the main generate tab, you can add a new SwarmLoraLoader node to let the main UI lora selector work, see here for details
• added VAE Tile Size param under Advanced Sampling for if you need VAE tiling
• added a mass model metadata reset utility
• added automatic recognition of Embed model architectures
• grid gen axis tab completion now offers an 'Add All' to quick-add a range of matches
• grid gen now automatically reorders axes internally to maximize speed (eg changing model lastmost since model changes are slow) (and has a checkbox to turn this off if you don't want it to)
• added used_embeddings to metadata when you use TI embeddings
• added a button to manually clear the batch view (under the gear icon, at the top-left of the batch view area). Also the autoclear toggle now defaults to off.
• there's now a button in the Models listing (under the hamburger menu) to Set As Refiner quickly
• there's now a user setting to change the hint popovers (the ? clickies) between buttons, hoverables, or none (hidden)
• image metadata is now saved in a format that's recognized by other tools (PNG Text Values for png, or UserComment EXIF for jpg)
• added CLIP Stop At Layer under Advanced Sampling for if you want that for old SDv1 NAI style model
• added Personal Note parameter, under advanced->swarm internal, if you want to handwrite a note into the metadata
• added Open In Folder button on the hamburger menu for images
• as always, a lot of assorted super minor things not worth listing